单词 | time displacement |
释义 | > as lemmastime displacement time displacement n. displacement in time or with respect to time; spec. the displacement by an activity of another activity that would have been done in the same period of time. ΚΠ 1878 London, Edinb. & Dublin Philos. Mag. 5th Ser. 6 356 This may be seen..by considering the case of the motion of a flat piece of cardboard in a fluid, and supposing the time displacement perpendicular to its plane and the arbitrary displacement in its plane. 1901 E. B. Titchener Exper. Psychol. I. ii. 206 The experiments on attentional time-displacement form one of the most interesting..chapters of experimental psychology. 1952 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 214 496 If the direction fluctuates, these times are displaced slightly, and the fluctuations in the angle of arrival can be deduced from the observed time displacements. 1996 G. F. Jankowski & D. C. Fuchs Television Today & Tomorrow v. 138 This view [sc. that television is ‘the enemy of the written word’] tends to be justified on a ‘time displacement’ theory—television takes up time that should be spent with print. 2003 Social Forces 82 143 DiMaggio and colleagues pose the question of whether the Internet has similar time-displacement consequences as do other leisure activities, citing studies for and against such effects. < as lemmas |
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